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Saint John was right; 'No man hath seen God at any time, to which 'open confession' he might truly have added, 'none ever will, for the unreal is always unseeable. Yet have 'mystery men' with shameless and most insolent pertinacity asserted the existence of God while denying the existence of matter. Define your terms, said Locke.
After struggling to see the unseeable, growing drunk with the endeavour to span the infinite, and writhing before the inscrutable mystery, it is a renovating relief to turn to some simple, feelable, weighable substance; to something which has a smell and a colour, which may be handled and turned over this way and that. This is sure.
Ellen came in and took her in her arms, whispering to her to soothe her. She tried to coax her away, but the child resisted violently, though she was usually so docile with Ellen. Eva did not seem to notice Amabel's crying. She stood in that horrible inflexibility, with eyes like black stones fixed on something unseeable. Fanny clutched her violently by the arm and shook her.
"But unseen voices may emanate from unseen and unseeable creatures who wield invisible blades," answered the green warrior.
There was a chorus of screams and Cora found herself alone in the ruined chamber. She was pale but resolute as she followed her companions sedately. "Weren't you awfully frightened?" asked Ray as Cora joined them. "No indeed," she answered. "I prefer a live and seeable snake to some haunting, unseeable rumor that only appears on dark nights.
You will find this difficult, as the virtue implied is intangible, unseeable; one cannot say of it, lo here! or lo there! it is as complicated and subtle as any other of the manifestations of pure Spirit. Then you must decide on one universal standard, or reasonable conception of what 'morality' is.
With that we gave the matter up. We quit staring at a closed brick outbuilding with unseeable things down under it, and went on our way. And, as it turned out that we never visited the underground rooms after all, this was as near as we ever came to solving the colonial mystery.
Now that he was finally unmasked and exposed, the accepted idea of himself cracked and rolled aside like a broken chestnut-burr, the mask split and shattered, he was at last quiet and free. He had dreaded exposure: and behold, we cannot be exposed, for we are invisible. We cannot be exposed to the looks of others, for our very being is night-lustrous and unseeable.
Their use is to mediate as shapes and manifestations in lower kind of the things that are unseen, that is, in themselves unseeable, the things that belong, not to the world of speech, but the world of silence, not to the world of showing, but the world of being, the world that cannot be shaken, and must remain.
Saint John was right; 'No man hath seen God at any time', to which 'open confession' he might truly have added, 'none ever will, for the unreal is alway unseeable. Yet have 'mystery men' with shameless and most insolent pertinacity asserted the existence of God while denying the existence of matter. The incomprehensible is not to be defined.
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